My friend
suggested what then seemed a novel idea.... "Why donít you choose
your own conception of God?" That statement hit me hard. It
melted the icy intellectual mountain in whose shadow I had lived
and shivered many years. I stood in the sunlight at last. It
was only a matter of being willing to believe in a Power greater
than myself. Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.

ALCOHOLIC'S
ANONYMOUS, p. 12

I remember the times I looked up into the sky and reflected
on who started it all, and how. When I came to A.A., an understanding
of some description of the spiritual dimension became a necessary
adjunct to a stable sobriety. After reading a variety of versions,
including the scientific, of a great explosion, I went for
simplicity and made the God of my understanding the Great
Power that made the explosion possible. With the vastness
of the universe under His command, He would, no doubt, be
able to guide my thinking and actions if I was prepared to
accept His guidance. But I could not expect help if I turned
my back on that help and went my own way. I became willing
to believe and I have had 26 years of stable and satisfying
sobriety.